Government - Quotes & Sayings
Socialism requires that government becomes your god.
Rafael CruzGovernment should seek more strategic approaches to developing dynamic, resilient infrastructure. Business must be more creative in offering financing solutions as partners with government, and people must support sustainable innovation as a public policy priority.
Frans van HoutenThe president has been a true friend of the ag industry, because he continues to invest large amounts of money at a time when savings is really the goal of the federal government to deal with the deficit.
Mike JohannsNo government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!
Ronald ReaganYou need to understand, if you take out a government, take out a regime, guess who becomes the government and regime and is responsible for the country? You are. So if you break it, you own it.
Colin PowellNo government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
Franklin D. RooseveltBut whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.
Lysander SpoonerThere was no measure that required greater caution or more severe scrutiny than one to impose taxes or raise a loan, be the form what it may. I hold that government has no right to do either, except when the public service makes it imperiously necessary, and then only to the extent that it requires.
John C. CalhounA government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.
Grover ClevelandThroughout my 20s and early 30s, I had jobs that I loved. I worked in city government. I ran a youth organization. I served as an associate dean at a university. And I couldn't imagine how a baby would fit into all of that.
Michelle ObamaI have never forgotten my days as an Eagle Scout. I didn't know it at the time, but what really came out of my Scouting was learning how to lead and serve the community. It has come in handy in my career in government.
Lloyd BentsenYou don't pay taxes - they take taxes.
Chris RockThe more people who are dependent on government handouts, the more votes the left can depend on for an ever-expanding welfare state.
Thomas SowellIf you don't like the idea that most of the money spent on lottery tickets supports government programs, you should know that most of the earnings from mutual funds support investment advisors' and mutual fund managers' retirement.
Robert KiyosakiRacism is not first and foremost a skin problem. It is a sin problem. See, when you believe that racism is a skin problem, you can take three hundred years of slavery, court decisions, marches, and the federal government involvement and still not get it fixed right.
Tony EvansWhen conducted with proper preparation, and in a focused and professional manner, oversight of executive branch actions can reveal serious shortcomings by government officials and help prevent recurrence; the 'Waco hearings,' conducted over a two-week period in 1995, stand as an example of such an undertaking.
Bob BarrGovernment is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyI believe always you should have a philanthropic heart inside but business way. Because you have to get things done. That is what scientists tell us how to do properly. Business should tell us how to get things done efficiently. And government should have the good environment and the foundations of researching.
Jack MaMy government is committed to carrying out electoral reforms. It is our firm resolve to keep criminal elements away from power.
Atal Bihari VajpayeeConvinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral.
Hugo ChavezI can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it... they can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government.
Gary ColemanA democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.
Alexis de TocquevilleAn able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.
Joseph PulitzerIf any man's money can be taken by a so-called government, without his own personal consent, all his other rights are taken with it; for with his money the government can, and will, hire soldiers to stand over him, compel him to submit to its arbitrary will, and kill him if he resists.
Lysander SpoonerYou know, in a workplace, when you shrink the size of a workforce, there is pain there. But there is no question: we have a government that we can no longer afford. That is the cold, hard fact. So we have to make this more efficient. We have to sunset programs that no longer work. We have to eliminate waste and fraud. We must do this.
Meg WhitmanThe government must give proper weight to both keeping America safe from terrorists and protecting Americans' privacy. But when Americans lack the most basic information about our domestic surveillance programs, they have no way of knowing whether we're getting that balance right. This lack of transparency is a big problem.
Al FrankenIt is not the function of the government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.
Robert JacksonGovernment should create the environment and incentives to stimulate investment in sustainable innovation, take away barriers, and accelerate adoption, even in turbulent economic times.
Frans van HoutenAs international support for Obama's decision to attack Syria has collapsed, along with the credibility of government claims, the administration has fallen back on a standard pretext for war crimes when all else fails: the credibility of the threats of the self-designated policeman of the world.
Noam ChomskyThere's very little dislike of Americans in the world, shown by repeated polls, and the dissatisfaction - that is, the hatred and the anger - they come from acceptance of American values, not a rejection of them, and recognition that they're rejected by the U.S. government and by U.S. elites, which does lead to hatred and anger.
Noam ChomskyThe government argues that First Amendment rights are outweighed by the need to prosecute those who transmit classified information and documents.
Noam ChomskyThe most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
John Stuart MillThere is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.
Stokely CarmichaelIf we speak calmly, in a businesslike fashion, let me draw your attention to the fact that Russia supplies arms to the legitimate government of Syria in full compliance with the norms of international law. We are not breaching any rules and norms.
Vladimir PutinYou have to support the government, not to me personally; I do not want anyone cultivating loyalty to me. I don't like that.
Rodrigo DuterteA Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.
Benjamin DisraeliThough the people support the government, the government should not support the people.
Grover ClevelandAs an Indian, and now as a politician and a government minister, I've become rather concerned about the hype we're hearing about our own country, all this talk about India becoming a world leader, even the next superpower.
Shashi TharoorPresident Ford was a devoted, decent man of impeccable integrity who put service to his country before his own self interest. He helped heal our nation during a time of crisis, provided steady leadership and restored people's faith in the presidency and in government.
Mark UdallI like being a foreigner. For me, to live in California is very pleasant - I'm more comfortable not feeling a part of everything, not feeling responsible for the government or the roads or the health system.
Eric IdleI didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major.
Demetri MartinFor a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.
Aleksandr SolzhenitsynAuthority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in those modernizing countries where government is at the mercy of alienated intellectuals, rambunctious colonels, and rioting students.
Ferdinand MarcosThis Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people.
John WycliffeWhile we can never truly repay the debt we owe our heroes, the least we should do for our brave veterans is to ensure that the government takes a proactive approach to delivering the services and benefits they have earned, so they can access the care they need and so richly deserve.
Kirsten GillibrandWhen the Constitution was written in 1787, there was this supposition that American politics would be above party. The people who would staff the positions in government would have the interests of the country, or at least their states and congressional districts, at heart, and so they wouldn't form permanent political parties.
H. W. BrandsThe fate of every democracy, of every government based on the sovereignty of the people, depends on the choices it makes between these opposite principles, absolute power on the one hand, and on the other the restraints of legality and the authority of tradition.
John ActonWhere there is a will there is a way. And this must be the way not of compulsion but of cooperation... No government and no plan can succeed without it.
Lionel MurphyThe checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.
Beau WillimonIn every country except - industrial country except the United States, the government uses its massive purchasing power to negotiate drug prices. That's one of the reasons prices are so much higher in the United States than in other countries.
Noam Chomsky